Anchor things got a little saucy on the east side this afternoon. Youre looking at video from the annual tomato romp. Its a fundraiser to fight hunger. For 10 a piece, people pelted each other with a pounds of thousand inedible tomatoes which were donated for the event. Looks messy. International kite festival continues tomorrow in veterans park. And you can watch professional kiteflying teams perform, or launch your own. Tomorrow at 2 00, Kaplin University will give away 100 free kites to children. That event ends at 6 00. Indian summer festival is also this weekend at henry maier festival park, filled with pow wows, storytelling, artists, food and plenty of dancing and music. Starting tomorrow at 11 00, veterans, military, police, new on wisn 12. Starting the school year off right. Anchor children at the boys and girls club near the sherman park neighborhood got some allstar visitors today. Players from marquette universitys Basketball Team stopped by to shoot some hoops and hand out
Heading to the game. We are looking at a forecast today that shifts from the hot and humid weather weve been seeing day after day to a much more pleasant forecast. We are looking at the of showers, spotty at best and the reason for that is the cold front passage. As it passes through that means your afternoon is going to look way better than yesterday, not as hot or as humid, humidity is going to plummet meaning it will feel nice and falllike outside as we move into the later part of your day. Also a much nicer evening. Temperatures will drop down in the days to come instead of seeing those high temperatures in the 70s and 80s it will be more like the 60s and 50s. If you want to check the forecast for your neighborhood that sevenday forecast is scrolling at the bottom of your screen. Not a lot going on in our area are rolling in, any rains that comes in will come from the west and that will be spotty at best. The clouds will start to move out as we move later in the day. A wider view s
Education and a champion for teachers and students. Jewells say he spoke with ellis back to work in forysth County School system. He family says they nee time to grieve and arrangements are still in the works. A shooting investigation is underway tonight at a wake forest gas station. It happened this afternoon a the shell station on durham road. Polie say the victim was shot in the armthe injuries are not life threatning. Officers say the shooting appears to be accidental. Police are still working to piece together exactly what happened. Were working to learn who pulled the trigger and if be filed. Tonight. A North Carolina Police Officer is in Critical Condition and authorities are searching for the shooter. It happened just after midnight in shelby. Thats in cleveland county. Officer tim brackeen was looking for a person wanted on outstanding warrants. Authorities are now searching for Lucien Fenner junior. Hes wanted for attempted murder. But more charges could be coming as the inve
Those have been hospitalized with one possibly in critical condition. Meanwhile nypd is investigating what could be a Pressure Cooker with wiring coming out of the top at a 2nd location in chelsea. That device is located on west 27th street and it has not been detonated. And investigators there are saying efforts are being made to move the suspicious device to another location. As for the manhattan exposion. Witnesses say the blast was so sent people running for cover. tony chelsea resident it was like boom. Like a huge steel plate hitting the ground. Thats what it sounded like. brandon tirabo, chelsea resident i saw a guy that got injured. Where was he bleeding from . He was bleeding from his head. Somewhere right here. the atf is also joining the investigation. Brittany Edney the mayor says they dont believe there is a connection to the earlier incident in new jersey. And again, while the act is believed to intentional, he adds sharie. Sharie Johnson the mayor says they dont believe
Following a family dispute between a man and a woman and a possible knife threat. Metro says as they worked the scene nearly a dozen people had to evacuate. Once the situation was over. The woman was not hurt but was still taken to the hospital for medical care as precaution. nia wong nevadas Transportation Department says they are right on time with the construction plan along the spaghetti bowl this is a live look at the intersection right now. The ramp that connects shutdown as a part of project neon which will widen the interstate 15 from the spaghetti bowl to sahara. Its expected to reopen this morning at 10. nia wong now lets toss it over to katier boer with your first check of weather. Wrapping up the final few days of summer with above average temperatures continuing into today our second half of the weekend. Monday will start dry but slight chances of thunderstorms arrive after 11pm. That means the countdown to fall is on just 4 days officially. The equinox occurring this comi